is only
> milo) need to be
> > reinstalled if yuouw ant the db to pickup and some you will
> have to fix e.g.
> > you don't have lilo on your system. (maybe rpm --rebuilddb ??)
>
> Hmmm... the two boxes are actually quite different. What they have in
> common is that they both contain (most of) the packages that are needed
> to build cooker / contrib. My intel is a very recent cooker installation
> and
> has 987 (!!) packages installed. My alpha only has 773.
>
> Personally I'd either figure out what is really going on or reinstall
> the
> box...
>
how about:
rpm -UvhF * in your local mirror?
that might work, provided that whatever is broken doesn't f*ck up the DB
anymore (recent rpm patches maybe ??)
> Thanks anyway,
>
> Stefan
>
